I am a 3rd year PhD student in the Quantitative Life Sciences (QLS) program at McGill University. Previously, I was an M.Sc. student in the School of Computer Science at McGill University supervised by Brent Richards and Joelle Pineau and was affiliated with the Lady Davis Institute at the Jewish General Hospital as well as Mila. I completed my B.Sc. in Computer Science and Biology at McGill University in 2020.

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• [2024-11] Co-author on paper accepted in Bioinformatics: MR Corge: sensitivity analysis of Mendelian randomization based on the core gene hypothesis for polygenic exposures (paper)!
• [2024-11] I am awarded a Graduate Research Enhancement and Travel (GREAT) Award!
• [2024-11] Honored to give an Oral Platform Talk at the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG)!
• [2024-11] Honored to give an Oral Platform Talk and have been selected as a Roger Williams Award Finalist at the International Genetic Epidemiology Society (IGES)!
• [2024-10] New preprint of our work: Multi-ancestry proteome-phenome-wide Mendelian randomization offers a comprehensive protein-disease atlas and potential therapeutic targets (paper)!
• [2024-10] Honored to have won the Best Oral Presentation Award at the Cardiometabolic Health, Diabetes and Obesity Research Network (CMDO) Annual Symposium on Health Research and Artificial Intelligence!
• [2024-07] Honored to give an invited talk at the Banff International Research Station!
• [2024-05] Honored to have won the Best Poster Presentation Award at the Healthy Brains Healthy Lives (HBHL) Symposium!
• [2023-11] I am awarded a Graduate Research Enhancement and Travel (GREAT) Award!
• [2023-11] Co-author on paper accepted in Communications Biology: HLA allele-calling using multi-ancestry whole-exome sequencing from the UK Biobank identifies 129 novel associations in 11 autoimmune diseases (paper)!
• [2023-10] I am awarded a Post Graduate Student Society (PGSS) Travel Award!
• [2023-09] Honored to have won the Trainee Poster Excellence Award at the 1st Canadian Symposium on Long COVID!

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• [2023-08] 3rd place award at the Quantitative Life Sciences PhD Program Three-Minute Thesis Competition!
• [2023-06] Co-author on paper accepted at Communications Medicine: Proteomic characterization of acute kidney injury in patients hospitalized with SARS-CoV2 infection (paper)!
• [2023-04] I am awarded a Doctoral Training Award ($105,000 CAD) from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)!
• [2023-04] 2nd place award at the Quantitative Life Sciences PhD Program Three-Minute Thesis Competition!
• [2023-03] First-author paper accepted at Scientific Reports: Circulating proteins to predict COVID-19 severity!
• [2023-03] I am awarded a Mitacs Globalink Research Award of $6,000 CAD!
• [2023-03] I am awarded a Graduate Mobility Award of $6,000 CAD!
• [2023-02] Co-author on paper accepted at Nature Metabolism: Proteome-wide Mendelian randomization implicates nephronectin as an actionable mediator of the effect of obesity on COVID-19 severity (paper)!
• [2023-02] Co-author on paper accepted at the International Journal of Epidemiology: Increasing serum iron levels and their role in the risk of infectious diseases: a Mendelian randomization approach (paper)!
• [2023-01] Our work is mentioned in the Association for the Advancement of Blood & Biotherapies (AABB) News Magazine (online magazine pdf)!
• [2023-01] Presented a poster at the McGill Quantitative Life Sciences Research Day!
• [2023-01] Co-author on new preprint on medRxiv: HLA allele-calling with whole-exome sequencing finds 129 novel associations in 11 autoimmune diseases: a multi-ancestry analysis in the UK Biobank (paper)!
• [2023-01] Co-author on paper accepted at Nature Genetics: Genomic atlas of the plasma metabolome prioritizes metabolites implicated in human diseases (paper)!
• [2023-01] I begin my second QLS PhD Rotation working with Dr. Alan Barkun at the McGill University Health Center and Montreal General Hospital!
• [2022-12] 2nd place award at the Quantitative Life Sciences PhD Program Three-Minute Thesis Competition!
• [2022-11] I am awarded a Graduate Excellence Award of $3,000 CAD!
• [2022-10] Presented a poster at the McGill School of Computer Science 50th Anniversary Celebration!
• [2022-09] I am starting my QLS PhD Rotation in the Decision Modeling Lab with Prof. Alton Russell!
• [2022-09] I am returning as a teaching assistant for COMP 202: Foundations of Programming at McGill University!
• [2022-09] I begin my PhD in Quantitative Life Sciences (QLS) at McGill University!
• [2022-09] I am awarded two Graduate Excellence Awards of $2,000 CAD and $3,000 CAD!
• [2022-08] Co-author on paper accepted at Clinical Proteomics: The dynamic changes and sex differences of 147 immune-related proteins during acute COVID-19 in 580 individuals (paper)!
• [2022-08] I am honored to be invited as a speaker to present at the Graduate Orientation Fellowship Sessions (FRQS Doctoral Awards) to incoming graduate students at McGill - slides, recording. (24 Aug)!
• [2022-06] I am awarded a Doctoral Training Award ($84,000 CAD) from the Fonds de recherche du Quebec – Sante (FRQS)!
• [2022-05] I begin my summer internship on the Computer Vision Science Team at Hinge Health!
• [2022-05] Graduated with an MSc in Computer Science at McGill University!
• [2022-03] I am selected as a mentor for the Undergraduate Poster Showcase hosted by the Office of Science Education at McGill!
• [2021-09] I get my first teaching experience as a teaching assistant for COMP 202: Foundations of Programming at McGill University!
• [2021-08] Abstract accepted for a poster presentation at the American Society of Human Genetics!
• [2021-08] I will be attending the Oxford Machine Learning Summer School (20-21 July; 9-20 Aug)!
• [2021-08] I am invited as a judge at the McMedHacks Hackathon (6-8 Aug)!
• [2021-07] I will be attending and presenting a poster at the CIFAR Deep Learning & Reinforcement Learning (DLRL) Summer School (26-31 Jul)!
• [2021-07] I will be volunteering at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) (18-24 Jul)!
• [2021-06] I will be giving a talk at the Summer Reasoning and Learning Lab Mini Conference!
• [2021-06] I will be joining McMedHacks as a mentor to help teach medical image analysis and deep learning in Python!
• [2021-06] I will be attending the STAQ Quantum Ideas Summer School hosted by Duke University (7-11 Jun)!
• [2021-05] 1st place award at the 21st Annual McGill Biomedical Graduate Conference (AMBGC) for best poster presentation!
• [2021-05] I am awarded an LDI-TD Bank Studentship!
• [2021-03] Our team competing in the XPRIZE Pandemic Response challenge are selected as world finalists!
• [2021-01] Our paper Regularized Inverse Reinforcement Learning is accepted for Spotlight Presentation at ICLR 2021!
• [2020-09] I begin my MSc in Computer Science working with Brent Richards and Joelle Pineau!
• [2020-05] Graduated with a BSc in Computer Science and Biology at McGill University! (Spring 2020 Virtual Convocation - Science)

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